example to be used in the Wikibook about LaTeX. I made the PDF compiling the following code:

\documentclass[a4paper,twocolumn]{article}

\usepackage{paralist}

\begin{document}

\textbf{\itshape Inline lists}, which are sequential in nature, just like enumerated
lists, but are \begin{inparaenum}[\itshape a\upshape)]
\item formatted within their paragraph;
\item usually labelled with letters; and 
\item usually have the final item prefixed with `and' or `or',
\end{inparaenum} like this example.

\end{document}